I appreciate that factors you mention especially with the notion of girls being able to hit boys and the boys not being allowed to hit back. Perhaps some horrible, traumatizing girl on boy bullying event occurred decades ago that only now was just triggered by something else?

- elimination of boy’s sports
- nationally 80% of teachers are women (in my son’s school 100%)
- unfair grading
- policies and procedures geared toward girls
- add girls bulling boys, administration condoning it, boys not being able to fight back against girl (like you said)

and more.

Could you clarify what you mean by “bigger” please? If schools are violent places that traumatize young people, that would explain (not justify, but explain) the man’s awful actions.

Ban men from schools completely.

Perhaps they already have.

Did you read what I wrote above?

I was channel flicking about 2 weeks ago and watched for 5 minutes some cop or other drama where a bunch of schoolgirls trapped a young boy, pulled down his pants, and kicked dirt at him and called him names while he tried to hide his face in the ground. They then took digital pictures of him and showed them to their classmates.

The woman member of the two person cop team then asked one of the little girls how long this abuse went on. “An hour or so. That’s when we got bored.” The woman tells the mother of the daughter: “Quite a daughter you got there.” She reponds with disgust but without commitment: “Yes” and walks away.

The woman investigator then walks away talking with her partner and says: “I was the geek but I gave abuse when I could get away with it.”

It was a disturbing scene. It brought back memories of my childhood some of the most vicious, ugly behaviours by children against me and other children. I talked about this issue seperately with a co-worker who told me that in his middle class neighborhood, it was not uncommon for some kids to run home, for a mile, just to avoid being caught unprepared by bullies.

The Simpsons cartoon regularly shows bullies attacking children viciously without any reaction from the administrators.

These are young _children_ (not the cartoon, of course) who are subject to VIOLENT, REPEATED physical and emotional abuse when they are most vulnerable while college age students can file grievances if someone makes a an inappropriate sexist joke. Does that make sense?

So yes, it doesn’t surprise me that this poor man snapped. I wish there was a mechanism in society for him to seek not only counseling, but protection in the first place from this kind of horrible bullying that taxpayer money continues to support.